Example sentences of "be [v-ing] [noun] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 2 | SOME Northern Ireland construction companies are so desperate for business they are building houses at a loss , a report reveals today . |
| 3 | He had , over many weeks , been siphoning petrol from a garage owner 's tank and lorries ; and the owner had , on this particular weekend , diluted the tank with water . |
| 4 | ‘ But it 's a younger generation — the Yuppies , the Sloane Rangers , the rich whizzkids , women my age — who are seeing fur as a status symbol again . |
| 5 | CLUBS are seeing red over a shortage of referees in the KY Youth League . |
| 6 | Gangs of children some as young as eight have been targeting pensioners in the town centre and have stolen money and property worth hundreds of pounds . |
| 7 | ‘ Surrogate Japanese exports — and some US ones too — are using Asean as a springboard . |
| 8 | If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , then you will also need to create the above directory on each of the additional VAXs from which you intend to access LIFESPAN . |
| 9 | If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , then you will also need to carry out the ASSIGN on each of the additional VAXs from which you intend to access LIFESPAN . |
| 10 | If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , then you will also have to set the directory file ownership on each of the additional VAXs from which you intend to access LIFESPAN . |
| 11 | If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , then you will need to copy the following files from the Installation Directory on the host node to the Installation Directory on each of the additional VAXs , ensuring their protections are preserved : — |
| 12 | If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , then you will have to repeat the steps in this section on each of the additional VAXs from which you intend to access LIFESPAN . |
| 13 | If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , then you will have to repeat the steps in this section on each of the additional VAXs from which you intend to access LIFESPAN . |
| 14 | If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , then you will have to repeat the steps in this section on each of the additional VAXs from which you intend to access LIFESPAN . |
| 15 | This section describes starting and stopping LIFESPAN Processes , and the File Transfer Server Process ( FTSP ) if you are using LIFESPAN across a network . |
| 16 | If you are using LIFESPAN across a network , it is advisable to start the FTSP on the remote nodes prior to starting LIFESPAN on the host node . |
| 17 | If for example I am pursuing X in the expectation of enjoying it , but when I get it am disappointed , or seem to enjoy it yet afterwards come to recognize that only habit or a false idea of myself or susceptibility to persuasion made me suppose I was enjoying myself , then I was mistaken in doing Y. Every choice of means , however well argued , proves groundless with the discrediting of the end , yet that I did not have the fun I expected is itself no more than a fact . |
| 18 | We are subsidising users of The Canadian 300 per cent and there is no justification for it . ’ |
| 19 | Bursting with spring health , they are drawing sustenance from a compost containing thousands of banknotes and travellers cheques . |
| 20 | A group of schoolchildren are drawing attention to the threat to tropical rainforests by composing their own ecological symphony . |
| 21 | In the last year I have been helping residents with a variety of local problems and have successfully applied pressure on Oxfordshire County Council to act on the problems caused by the gypsies at the end of the Abingdon Road , near the Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre . |
| 22 | — MEMBERS of Winterton Hospital Social Club are helping colleagues at the South Cleveland Hospital to raise money for the hospital 's Renal Unit by organising a charity night at the club . |
| 23 | They are maintaining contact with the world . |
| 24 | Anne , of similar age to Rhoda , had been hanging clothes in the garden , when she noticed the black , heavy smoke rising from the Carter 's smithy . |
| 25 | Touche Ross , who have been handling negotiations for the sale of the American style Marvels park , say there are several potential buyers . |
| 26 | Of course the swell has been gathering force for a century or more , since Joseph Thompson first saw ‘ the most peculiar band of men to be found in Africa ‘ . |
| 27 | This week , 13 and 14-year-old pupils have been gathering data on the county 's public footpath system , working as far afield as Saffron Walden . |
| 28 | We are pursuing discussions on the future of the HLCAs following the autumn review and we shall announce the results as soon as we can . |
| 29 | I 've been using RapidCad for a month or so and It 's not given me the slightest problem . |
| 30 | Consequently , the sample group had been using heroin for an average of five years when they were interviewed . |